On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 16:27 -0600, Alan Braslau wrote:

Of course, you have to escape the percent character if you do not want it to be interpreted as a comment... however, in the example below, the URL does not get rendered properly, nor does using \letterpercent, so there is something that we need to fix in our treatment of URLs.

That is easily fixed by making \hyphenatedurl aware of \% being \letterpercent. \appendtoks   \let\%\letterpercent \to \everyhyphenatedurl However, I wonder whether the treatment of % in bib files is correct, as regular BibTeX does treat the % verbatim.  Because the following LaTeX example works just fine, with unescaped %.  In my opinion this behaviour should be adopted by ConTeXt. \begin{filecontents*}{\jobname.bib} @misc{kraft,   author = "Kraft, Nathan",   title = "Mr Kraft's Virtual Filing Cabinet",   year = "2015",   url = "http://mrkraft.wikispaces.com/Mr+Kraft%27s+Virtual+Filing+Cabi net" } \end{filecontents*} \documentclass{article} \usepackage{apacite,url} \begin{document} \nocite{kraft} \bibliographystyle{apacite} \bibliography{\jobname.bib} \end{document}

\startbuffer[references]

@misc{kraft,   author = "Kraft, Nathan",   title = "Mr Kraft's Virtual Filing Cabinet",   year = "2015",   url = "http://mrkraft.wikispaces.com/Mr+Kraft\%27s+Virtual+Filing+C abinet" }

\stopbuffer

\usebtxdefinitions[apa] \usebtxdataset[references.buffer]

\starttext

\nocite[kraft]

\placelistofpublications

\showbtxdatasetcompleteness

\stoptext

On Tue, 9 May 2017 09:44:01 +1200 Henri Menke wrote:

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Dear list,

The percent character in btx field is taken as a comment characters which leads to the rest of the field being discarded.  In the MWE below, the URL is cut off at the % sign and everything after it is lost.

Cheers, Henri

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\startbuffer[references] @misc{kraft,   author = "Kraft, Nathan",   title = "Mr Kraft's Virtual Filing Cabinet",   year = "2015",   url = "http://mrkraft.wikispaces.com/Mr+Kraft%27s+Virtual+Filing+Cabi net" } \stopbuffer

\usebtxdataset[references.buffer] \usebtxdefinitions[apa]

\starttext

\nocite[kraft] \placelistofpublications

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Am Mon, 8 May 2017 17:56:08 -0600 schrieb Alan Braslau:

So bibtex has a funny way of dealing with comments, and do we really care about Scribe?

biber handles comments differently than bibtex, see e.g. https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/261261/are-comments-discouraged-in-a... As a thumbrule one can sum the rule up that *inside* field text comment chars should be input according the tex rule for the field *type*. That means that normal textfields should use \%, while url's and other verbatim-like field can use %.

We made the choice NOT to remain *strictly* bibtex compatible, after all bibtex is limited to ASCII 7-bit!

That's not true bibtex has no real problem with 8-bit-encodings, and works even quite often quite good with utf8 (when you don't try to use at places where it can be broken into parts. -- Ulrike Fischer http://www.troubleshooting-tex.de/

On Mon, 2017-05-08 at 20:15 -0400, Rik Kabel wrote:

On 2017-05-08 17:44, Henri Menke wrote:

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Dear list,

The percent character in btx field is taken as a comment characters which leads to the rest of the field being discarded.  In the MWE below, the URL is cut off at the % sign and everything after it is lost.

Cheers, Henri

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\startbuffer[references] @misc{kraft,   author = "Kraft, Nathan",   title = "Mr Kraft's Virtual Filing Cabinet",   year = "2015",   url = "http://mrkraft.wikispaces.com/Mr+Kraft%27s+Virtual+Filing+ Cabi net" } \stopbuffer

\usebtxdataset[references.buffer] \usebtxdefinitions[apa]

\starttext

\nocite[kraft] \placelistofpublications

\stoptext  The bibtex entry in this example is provided in a buffer. The buffer mechanism does not handle characters any differently than other text in the file, and % in a ConTeXt buffer has to be escaped if it does not signify a comment.

That is simply not true!  Content inside ConTeXt buffers is as verbatim as reading an external file.  Try \typebuffer instead of \getbuffer your example below and observe that the comment sign is perfectly preserved.

If you specify an external (.bib or .bibtex) file to supply the data,  % does not need to be escaped. So, this part is simple user error. (With \starttext \startbuffer   abc%def

  ghi\%jkl \stopbuffer \getbuffer \stoptext you do not get %def in the output. Why do you expect different behavior if the buffer holds a bibtex entry?)

The way hyphenatedurl handles things may well be worthy of improvement.

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